Clarkson: “I need a zesty drink.”

Summary: James May reinvents Dr.Pepper in 2022 and then adds seven months out of date coffee to the mix. Then proceeds to drink it.

Ah yes, the old “swamp water” recipe of adding whatever was lying around. That said, grade-school me & friends did come with an “official” Swamp Water: equal parts coke, sprite, and orange juice (with pulp). You can sub in local equivalents as you like but the point is one part brown, one part clear, one part pulpy juice. Tastes much better than it looks.

Hey Bim! I think the reason for the 'head' when coffee is added is because the semi-dissolved coffee particles are causing the dissolved CO2 to come out of solution by giving it a place to anchor itself (sort of like acting as a catalyst)

I thought this channel was dead, happy to see it back!

Glad to see this channel has returned, and I'm very much looking forward to 'Our Man in Italy'. Maybe as a collaboration for that show James could try making some Italian sandwiches. Lurpak and meatballs anyone?

Instant coffee will never go "bad", only stale. It won't become toxic, it just loses it's flavor.

Inspired by this video, I immediately poured some Dandelion and Burdock into a glass, added a teaspoon of coffee (in-date, I'm afraid), and stirred. I can happily confirm it is one of the worst things I've ever put into my mouth, and I've had some questionable friday nights, which I regretted within an instant. Not only did my stomach churn at the foul concoction I'd just forced it to gurgle, but I can _feel_ the taste of it in the back of my mouth. It's much alike how I imagine it would feel to walk into the remains of reactor 4 and hold a chunk of the elephant's foot in the back of one's throat.

Actually there is a fizzy water and coffee drink that’s sometimes sold in coffeeshops, called espresso tonic. It’s fantastic as long as barista knows what they’re doing with their espresso and don’t use schweppes tonic. The downside is it tends to hit quite hard (something to do with oral absorption I presume but not quite sure don’t quote me on that). Also, coke + instant coffee mix is student’s “all-nighter” drink in some countries, so not sure how popular it is in UK

Great to see the bunker again. Hopefully this means Lucy will also start posting on her channel too

I'd love to see James rank the Monster flavours as someone who has probably never tried one

Glad Food Tribe is back! Surely Mr May prefers these concotions compared to the Top Gear 'V8 Smoothie' (breeze blocks, raw meat etc.)?

I didn't even look, so here goes anyway: The reason the coffee makes it froth is the same reason Mentos does. It's the granular nature of the the dry coffee that gives the dissolved gasses a place to attach and release from suspension. Added to that is (probably) the frothing agents in the coffee itself. I'm unsure of that, not knowing how UK instant coffee may differ from US

i DESPERATELY need more of James cooking. I know they're filming Grand Tour again but i wish he'd go back to the bunker kitchen more often.

We had coffee coke here in australia a few years ago. Clearly didn't do too well as it was only around for 2-3 months. I quite liked it.

3:17 James turned into Jeremy with that "YEAH" 😄

Loved this! 😂. This brought back memories of Secondary school! Ben is a natural infront of the camera too!

I’m so glad y’all are back. I love Food Tribe.

As a teenager I used to do this all the time - mixing all the fizzy drinks available in Iceland at the time - some of it was actually very nice.

Very happy to see y'all back. I'll watch James May do literally anything.

James always making sure the flavour is well informed.

This was a fascinating and very entertaining video! Glad to have the food tribe back.

He went from wine tasting with Oz to this 😂

Loved this video ❤️ We need more videos like this. Please !

Petition for FoodTribe to get back to making sandwiches and food videos!!

James: "so why cant you do that with fizzy drinks" aspertame: "so you chose diabetes"

Love these videos! Could watch May all day

James May, you have entertained me for decades.

Sooooooo happy to see FoodTribe back! 👌👍

I have missed these videos greatly! I honestly hope that we will be getting more content. Thank you all so much and I’ll be waiting for the next one!

This is the kind of thing children get up to when left unsupervised.

This channel was the savour of my lockdown. Glad to see it back!

Would be awesome if James released his own coffee line called Bunker Brew!

Coca Cola makes a coke with coffee soft drink. It even comes in dark roast or vanilla. But, while looking this up I noticed that Coca Cola also makes a Quebec Maple (syrup) cola soft drink. I'm not sure that is something I'd want to try.

I´ve the whole of german TV channels at my hands and yet i choose watching Sir James May relishing being a twentysomething for life. Brilliant content!

So glad to see this back! Was absolutely devastated when you guys shut the drivetribe app down 😭

Great to see James is back on FoodTribe. I have liked, commented and have been subscribed for a long time. Guess I did my part. BTW: In Germany there's a softdrink company called fritz-kola that has offered a coke with coffee. And now they even offer a caramel coffee coke.

Fanta Fruit Twist! Not had that in years, soon as James wanted to try it I knew it wouldn't disappoint. It certainly has a unique fruity but fresh flavor.

Im glad to see some Food Tribe back, had been missing it

Retirement sure has been wild for James. LOL Absolutely love what you guys are doing in the bunker kitchen!

I hope food tribe is going to be filming more often. I’ve missed the crew.

Ah, great memories of being a bored, unsupervised kid.

I love the swirling in the glass as if it were a fine wine.

Great to see all of you back, especially Ben, by far the most attractive

We called it “the graveyard” mixing all sodas together. Absolutely gross.

Coca-cola Blak was a thing. There is a current version back on the shelves mixing coffee with coca-cola. Been on shelves about 2 years.

A year later I am watching this! New to the gin game. The double dot sounds fantastic!

"It looks like kidney failure." Oh my, what a line..

he’s looking more and more like billy Connolly everyday 😂😂

Mr. May aka James. You had a terrific tv show with Oz Clarke about wine and drinking for Britain. In that drinking for Britain you bought a piece of land from some wine guy. My question is, since your idea was to grow "beer" in that plot of land, Have you grown "beer" there and if so, will that be used to brew beer and served in your pub? I need answers for this so I will keep commenting this same question for all the videos in foodtribe. It has been a while

"Shouldn't mix up the tops" is the most James May-y thing ever

The content is getting more advanced day by day

I'm no food scientist, (though I am a distiller so recipe/product development is a thing I deal with on a near-daily basis) but I can personally attest to Coke with coffee being a thing here in the US and it IS rather tasty. It's becoming easier to find in the stores locally, too. Of all the drinks you have up there to pair with coffee, I think Coca-Cola or Pepsi would be the best two, just going off of their base flavours and the ingredients used. Dr. Pepper might well work, but being as it's advertised as having 23 flavours involved in it, I don't know how well the coffee would play out or come through.

I suppose the frothiness once you add the coffee is due to the high surface area of the coffee granules, allowing the CO2 to have a greater area of effect to fizz, much like it does when you pour fizzy drinks into an old scratched glass.

Brill. Great to see this back . 👏

Yay! Welcome back, James and Food Tribe team!

Cold brew plus tonic water tastes amazing and is really refreshing!

YES JAMES IS BACK!

I've missed the bunker. welcome back with a great topic.

The only person's videos that I don't skip through.

You should reduce the mixed drink on the hob until it becomes a syrup, then add it to a normally brewed coffee.

Lucy Brown’s observations are so left field 😂 “it looks like kidney failure” is my new go-to negative comment 👍

“It’s only.... 7 months out of date.” A man after my own heart!

I have been going through quite a massive bunker kitchen withdrawal period -- please, let's have these at least once per week from now on, shall we? Thank you very much!

They used to advertise to make Dr Pepper hot during the holidays. You heat the soda to 180 degrees then pour it over a thin slice of lemon (thin is key the lemon can become overpowering quickly) before enjoying. Maybe nix the lemon and try to make a hot coffee Dr pepper.

Tonight on James May. James drinks some soda, James mixes some soda together, and James puts coffee into soda.

Happy to see you back James 🤗

Get Ben in more of these! He rocks

I remember making an instant coffee with sparkling water once and it was quite extreme

In the southeastern portion of the US I’d say many viewers that were born in the 90’s would know mixing all of the sodas available at the soda fountain as a “suicide”. It was my favorite after baseball game treat growing up.

I beg your pardon sir but Dandilion and Burdock can only be described as, what you would unfathomably call, epic.

It’s great to see Lucy again….haven’t seen anything from her for months. Fun video guys.

I’m gonna have to find a bottle of dandelion and burdock next time I’m shopping because it definitely was an acquired taste but I liked it as a kid !

We did that when I was a young teen and we went to dinner to a pizzeria with buddies. But we also mixed in leftover chips, mayo, ketchup and the occasional olive or artichoke piece from a quattro stagioni. We’d each tip 1000 lire and give all to the guy who dared to drink it.

Wow, 11 minutes of adults pouring a load of fizzy drinks into a glass and drinking it... and the comment "You're a brave man" oh dear!!

They proceed to mix up a batch of 200 different chemicals... and then worry that the dry coffee might not be safe.

They actually sell coffee +coke here in the US

I used to do so similar when I went on holiday at an all inclusive hotel in Spain/Majorca when I was like 6 as they let you free reign of the dispensers (and who doesn't love sugar?). Coke + Fanta Orange + Fanta Lemon + Sprite all together is actually surprisingly nice. I've never been on an all inclusive as an adult, that would probably be quite dangerous adding alcohol to the mix 🤣

hahaha 1:50 "mustn't mix up the tops" - I was reminded of all those Top Gear episodes where Clarkson and Hammond always joked that James had to put his tools back in exactly the right place.

Keep the videos coming May!

Great to see the bunker back! Great as well 👍

Similarly I do something like this in fast food restaurants that have soda fountains. You basically mix a bit of every drink other than usually water into your cup and different "values"/amounts. I believe its called a tsunami but if not its what I call it.

This is me and the lads when we were 11. Love it. 🤣

"Fruit Twist Fanta" the way James says that is amusing to me new meme right there 🤣

We used to call it "Swamp Water" when I was young. Mixing all the fountain drinks.

I am 17 and I love dandelion and burdock

Thanks for including urn bru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

My local coffee shop in downtown Huntsville Alabama offers an 'Americola', an espresso shot with a can of coke, rather than water, added after the espresso brew. It's actually quite a lovely treat every now and again!

I got this big pack of "sparkling coffee" from this shop that sells discount products and let me tell you... I understand why it was at that shop. It was disgusting.

Don't change the name! Keep foodtribe and keep making cookies videos as well as this other stuff

wow, Lucy was enthusiastic to try it AND liked it...

coke and coffee work really well with each other in the right proportions. adding lemon and bitters makes an excellent mocktail

Fizzy and coffee: best use Tonic, then you get Espresso Tonic, an actual drink, quite lovely!

Thank you for actually using chilled drinks, literally everyone on the internet doing content like this uses hot soda, who on earth drinks hot soda?

Saw this in my recommended, saw James May in the title, INSTANTLY CLICKED ON IT

Whoever edits these videos, props to you

I'd also make "suicides" at the fountain when I was younger, usually on a dare. I'll still occasionally mix 2 parts Dr Pepper with 1 part orange soda (Sunkist/Fanta/Crush), comes out a bit like a cream soda.

More with Ben please, very easy to watch!

Love you James! 😍😍😍

Oh my Lord that's like childhood. Mixing all the drinks together from a soda fountain